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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Our neighbor gave me a summer squash. I don't really know how to cook the kind of squash that's available here so I tried this for the first time. I sliced them with the skin still on, I just washed it good. Then I stacked them as shown in the picture at my pie pan.

I also chopped up one slice of fried bacon for some added flavoring. Everything taste good with bacon right?

Procedure:

Add the other veggies in between the squash. The reason I arranged the squash the way it is on the photos is because you can easily insert the other cut up veggies in between those squash to infuse the other vegetable's flavor.

Add the greens and cheese on top and drizzle a little bit of olive oil.

When all the ingredients are incorporated, bake it for 30 minutes in a 350 degrees heat.

I know when the food I cook turned out good when my husband likes it especially that he doesn't like squash. He said he love it that way I prepared it.

We ate the semi-vegetarian treat with rice and small piece of grilled chicken breast.

My kitchen is my "Science Lab" at home. I do different experiments on food that I cook. I am horrible with following recipes because whenever I am preparing it and I don't have the ingredient I need, I always end up using different thing and cook different menu instead of the recipe I am trying to make lol.

To entice my kids' appetite, I do creative things especially on veggies. My kids are two very different individuals. The little Miss love egg whites while the little Mister likes the yolk. So What I always do is separate the whites from the yolk and fry them inside a cut up veggies. You just need to removed the inside part of the veggies and they served as the bowl for the egg.

The first one I used are red bell peppers.

Yesterday, I used sliced up squash and added some cheese on top to make it more appealing to them and they loved it!

This morning, I picked a green tomato from my garden and used it too to fry the eggs and of course, the sprinkled cheese on top does the trick in making them want to eat it. When you have kids, coming up with different menus everyday is hard but with a little bit of creativity, it's okay.

I did not want to throw the rest of the tomatoes so I made it into a salsa. I thought it was going to be sour but it was actually not. I added some strawberry, soy sauce, hot pepper flakes, and scallions. The strawberry counter balanced the sour note of the tomatoes and it was refreshing to eat!

My Burritos are craving for some ravioli and my husband want some lasagna so to compensate the two desires, I make this Ravioli Lasagna. I found the recipe at the can of the ravioli. I dunno how to make ravioli so I use the canned one. It's really easy to make. Preparation is 20-10 minutes.

This is a long over due post coz yeah, I am a slacker. I just have so many things on the plate when my kids are on school break. I don't blog as much when they are home because they want to do a lot of things everyday.

But anyhow, on my birthday last month, my husband wanted us to go out but since I was in my heaviest day (as always, Lady in Red's perfect timing), I just decided to cook dinner at home and bond with the kids while we wait for my husband to get home.

My kids baked this cake by themselves, I wasn't even allowed to peek in the kitchen when they were baking. My husband did not know that the kids baked a cake so on his way home, he also bought a cake from Gus's Goodies so I had so much of a sweet treat on my birthday!

After our dinner, we visited my FIL and finished the day with some quality time at the park in Marland Heights park. All the photos were taken by a phone...

Oh, I'd love to thank a very thoughtful friend who always goes out of her way to remember our special days! Thanks a lot sis Dhemz for the pressies! I love everything you sent!

So that's a wrap. I thank God for the 41 years of blessing my life with so much precious gifts that life could offer including trials that make me a stronger person that I am today!

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

I don't know how many times I told you guys that I live in such a friendly neighborhood. Our neighbors are like family to us. They always lend a hand when you are doing something, they give you things, I like it here. We look out for each other! Anyway, one of our very good , kind, generous, and thoughtful neighbors are the Fancher's. They have a big garden and they always give me veggies whenever they are harvesting. They planted kolhrabi this year and they let me try it. I have never eaten kohlrabi before nor try to cook with it. IN fact, I did not know it's name lol. They gave me two of them to try. When I was slicing them, it reminded me of papaya so I thought of picking or making it into achara.

We normally use papaya for achara but thought of trying the kohlrabi. I have never made achara before but I always love eating it as a side dish. My father used to make it during fiesta and I missed it a lot! Achara by the way, is the term we use for pickle. It's Filipinos way of pickling Papaya.

Anyway, here is the recipe that I found at pinoyrecipe.net: I slightly altered it as I am using kohlrabi and not papaya.

Ingredients:

4 cups grated fresh kohlrabi

1/4 cup salt

1 carrot, peeled and sliced

1 red thai pepper, sliced into long strips

1 (2 inch) piece fresh ginger root, peeled and sliced

1 green jalapeño peppers, sliced into thin rings

1 (1.5 ounce) box raisins

1 cup white vinegar

1 cup water

1 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon salt

Preparation:

Combine the kohlrabi, carrot, red and green peppers, ginger, and raisins together in a clean large bowl; mix.

Transfer the mixture to clean, dry jars with lids.

Stir the vinegar, water, sugar and 1 teaspoon salt together in a small saucepan; bring to a boil for 5 minutes.

Pour the vinegar mixture into the jars, making sure the vegetables are completely submerged in liquid.

Allow the vegetables to marinate in the liquid at least 1 day before using.

Store in refrigerator between uses.

I let them taste what I made with the kohlrabi they gave and they liked it! They gave me another two and I made it for them. The only difference is that I added some dried cranberries to this batch as I ran out of raisins.

I like eating achara with just about anything especially with fried food like fish or BBQ. MY husband eats it alone, he never had achara before and he said it rocks!

See, I eat it with my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It doesn't matter, it's just so good to eat!

So, do you want to try making achara? Give it a try and I hope you like it as much as I do. MY husband like it so much that he said, he is going to make a big plot o a garden next year just for kohlrabi lol. Let's see about that haha.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

I sent my husband the link of the breakfast we had and he said he's jealous so I made him some pancake during the weekend. I made him his favorite Buckwheat mix and I added some fresh blueberries in it plus bacon bits, he loved it!

I just incorporated the blueberries whole but I would recommend chopping them so it won't affect the pancake when you flip it. I also recommend to chop the bacon in small pieces or you can use bacon bits.

My husband love it this way though, the blueberries just burst and the juice adds so much flavor into the pancake.

My kids aren't fond of buckwheat pancake so I made them some fried rice to eat with their bacon and eggs.

Monday, July 21, 2014

My son has been asking for egg mcmuffin but I really don't want us buying food if I can just cook. I asked my husband what's in mcmuffin and he told me. This morning, I tried to come up with something that I know my son would like, close enough to be mcmuffin but without a muffin.

This is very easy to do. He asked for this again for dinner and he said he wants it again tomorrow for breakfast.

It only takes few minutes to make this Microwaved Egg with Sausage and Cheese Recipe

Ingredients:

1 egg

1 sausage link

a teaspoon of shredded cheese (or whatever kind of cheese)

Slice Scallions (optional)

salt and pepper (optional)

Procedure:

Cooked the sausage and sliced them up.

Cut up some scallions.

Break the egg and put it in a small bowl, sprinkle salt on top, cover it with paper towel, then put it in the microwave. Nuke it for 20 seconds then take them out. The egg white should be half cook and the egg yolk is still raw.

Put the sliced sausage, scallions, and top it with cheese.

Return to the microwave with the paper towel covering the bowl. Nuke it for 40 seconds and it will be done.

Just look at how it light up my son's face seeing his delightful treat! He told me that he would love this for lunch at school, so this is added in my list for the lunch he love to eat when they don't like the hot lunch school is serving for certain days.

Tip: Spray a little oil on your bowl for easy removal. I did not use any oil or butter but I still managed to take it out easily.

My kids helped me prepare our dinner tonight. I picked the okra I had in my garden so the kids can try it. I blanched them together with the green beans. My daughter wants some mushrooms so I made her a little of that after I prepared the pork chops. They prepared the vegetable salad. We had such a nice dinner tonight!

Sunday, July 20, 2014

With the success I had in cooking the salmon for our dinner a couple of days ago using my made-up recipe for baked salmon, I got inspired to try another menu but this time, I followed the recipe at the packaging of the salmon. Here's the recipe:

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